Global Carbon Project (Robbie M. Andrew and Glen P. Peters, CICERO)
The Global Carbon Project's fossil CO2 emissions dataset, 2025 release
Fossil carbon dioxide emissions by country and year from 1750 to 2024, in million tonnes of carbon dioxide, split into coal, oil, gas, cement, flaring and other carbonates, with emissions per person and the population series used for them. These are territorial emissions, the same national series as the Global Carbon Budget 2025, with international aviation and international shipping as separate entries. The cement carbonation sink is not subtracted, so the world total is higher than the Global Carbon Budget's headline fossil figure.
Numbers published from it
Licence and credit
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- What the terms say
“Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International”
From the producer's terms, checked 2026-10-04; re-checked automatically every week.
- Credit we give
- Andrew and Peters (2025), The Global Carbon Project's fossil CO2 emissions dataset, version 2025v15, doi:10.5281/zenodo.17417124, CC BY 4.0. Part of the Global Carbon Budget 2025 (Friedlingstein et al., 2026, Earth Syst. Sci. Data 18, 3211–3288).
- Copy of the raw file
- Allowed: we keep a public copy of every version we use.
- Cite as
- Andrew, R. M. and Peters, G. P.: The Global Carbon Project’s fossil CO2 emissions dataset (2025v15), https://zenodo.org/records/17417124, 2025.
Files
Fossil CO2 by country and year, 1750-2024: total, coal, oil, gas, cement, flaring, other, per capita (million tonnes CO2; tonnes per person). 3,147,221 bytes.
https://zenodo.org/api/records/17417124/files/GCB2025v15_MtCO2_flat.csv/contentFossil CO2 per person by country, year and fuel, 1750-2024 (tonnes CO2 per person). 2,732,085 bytes.
https://zenodo.org/api/records/17417124/files/GCB2025v15_percapita_flat.csv/contentThe population series behind the per-person values, by country, from 1950. 688,959 bytes.
https://zenodo.org/api/records/17417124/files/GCB2025v15_population_flat.csv/contentColumn definitions, units, version and licence for the MtCO2 flat file. 3,784 bytes.
https://zenodo.org/api/records/17417124/files/GCB2025v15_MtCO2_flat_metadata.json/content
Status
- Programme
- 2025v15 (22 October 2025) is the latest version under concept DOI 10.5281/zenodo.5569234 on 4 October 2026; Zenodo describes it as the initial release of the 2025 dataset. The next version is expected with GCB 2026 during COP31 (9-20 November 2026), with no date announced. Not a US federal product.
- Updates
- Annual, in October or November, sometimes followed by corrected sub-versions; each version has its own DOI
- Last check
- Unchanged since the last fetch (2026-10-05T11:03:14Z)
- Independent sources measuring the same thing
- EDGAR 2026: greenhouse gas emissions of all world countries